Kitchen and Bath: Room for a Bath

New homes today are full of luxurysized
baths, complete with
whirlpools, bidets, his-and-her lavs,
and plenty of floor space besides. But
when it comes to adding or upgrading
a bath in an existing home, remodelers
are often stuck with, at best, a 5x7-foot
space. And if you happen to work in an
area with a lot of very old homes, as I
do, you often find that when the
plumbing moved indoors, the bath was
stuck into even less space — perhaps
under a staircase or in a former closet.
So it was a real pleasure for me to
design and build a bathroom in a space
that had the opposite problem — more
than enough